Category Archives: Newton

Extending complex UDFs with simple VBA

Posted on 05/09/2014 by dougaj4

One of the advantages of writing spreadsheet applications in the form of User Defined Functions (UDFs) is that the UDF may be used on the spreadsheet in the same way as a built-in function, allowing applications to be modified and extended … Continue reading →

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Using the VBA ParamArray keyword

Posted on 30/08/2014 by dougaj4

The recently posted SolvePoly function makes use of the VBA ParamArray keyword, which allows an arbitrarily long list of arguments to be passed to another function.  I have not made great use of this in the past, but since the … Continue reading →

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Is Hinchliffe’s Rule True? …

Posted on 30/08/2014 by dougaj4

… is the title of a paper by Boris Peon. Here is the abstract: Hinchliffe has asserted that whenever the title of a paper is a question with a yes/no answer, the answer is always no. This paper demonstrates that … Continue reading →

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Numerical Integration; Tanh-Sinh Quadrature v. 4.2

Posted on 23/08/2014 by dougaj4

The latest version (4.2) of the numerical integration spreadsheet by Graeme Dennes is now available for download from Tanh_Sinh Quadrature. For more details of the background see: Faster Integration with the Tanh-Sinh Method and subsequent posts on this subject. In addition to … Continue reading →

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Solving polynomials – update

Posted on 14/08/2014 by dougaj4

The polynomial spreadsheet (details here) provides functions to solve polynomial equations of any order; using an “exact” method for up to quartic, and an iterative procedure for higher orders.  The input for the functions requires the equation coefficients to be … Continue reading →

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